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After seven tries, the ball sprang loose, and senior cornerback Benny Butler snatched it up. Seemingly uncertain about whether the ball was live or downed, he slowly began to move towards the Penn goal line before sprinting to the one-yard line where he was tackled as he dove for the corner pylon...
Like so much else I did during my first year at Harvard, my declaration of Freedonian citizenship seemed like a good idea at the time, and now like mortifyingly pretentious posturing in retrospect. But unlike much of what I did during my freshman year, my declaration of Freedonian citizenship sprang from an insecurity that still haunts me: a lack of cultural identity...
...fact, for Gillis and others like her who joined the draft-Clark movement that sprang up over the Internet this summer, there was something of a Field of Dreams quality to it all. They had built it; he had come. In that sense, the Clark blitz has less to do with the candidate than it does with the political landscape around him. Even as Democrats are beginning to believe for the first time that President Bush may actually be vulnerable, they are increasingly worried that they have not yet seen the Democrat who can beat him. Many are intrigued...
Gilley's turn from small-time musician to big-time entertainer sprang from someone else's idea. In 1971 businessman Sherwood Cryer saw Gilley play and invited him to be a partner in a new club. In an offer that would change Gilley's life, Cryer said he would pay Gilley half the profits for playing six nights a week--and convinced the dubious musician that the club should be named Gilley...
...attempts to influence the outcome have boomeranged. After China launched its missiles in '96?prompting the U.S. to rush two aircraft carriers to the region?voters gave Lee a landslide victory. Four years later China directed its ire at presidential candidate Chen Shui-bian, whose Democratic Progressive Party sprang from the pro-independence movement. Beijing branded him a "dangerous" separatist and threatened "a blood-soaked battle" to reunite with Taiwan. Chen was a long shot until then, but ended up winning. "China has learned to shut up," says Emile Sheng, a professor at Taiwan's Soochow University. "It knows...